Show And Tell 2012-8-20 (Drupal)

By Zack

Rewriting Results In Views

• Turn off linking to node
• can use tokens such as [title], [body] to link or rewrite
  • review available tokens in replacement patterns

Calendar

• View for calendar should be built from template

Webform

• Create content
• Using content and before in styling

hook_mod_alter

• check page path with url($_GET['q']);
• get_defined_vars
• template.php
• change ['submitted']...

node_load

• get nid from url

Sending and receiving NID or other info in URL

• quicktabs use
• % in path
• in the webform settings, you can use %get[nid]

Profile Styling

• Style settings in view
  • wrapper and element type
• global.css
  • page name is in the body class

Templates

• Copy from base theme
• Changing header in branding
  • Image map
• Clear cache

Views Bulk Operations

• Checkboxes to select nodes
• More options (delete)

Contextual Filters

• % in path
• By NID
• Validation Criteria
  • Validator -- content or taxonomy term
• Chose content type

Feeds

• Creating importer
  • Periodic Import
  • Content Type
  • Mapping
• Import

Gallery

• Cant use pager
• HTML list
• Format slideshow of fields